KILLING A HARE
Sir,-I feel I must make an attempt at replying to the letter submitted by your correspondent "Summa," and quoting the Rev. Henry Davis. As he is said to be "a well-known writer on moral theology," I was amazed, to put it mildly, at the statement "Animals have no rights. .. We have no duties of justice or charity towards them." Then the Rev. Davis a line or two later apperently contradicts himself by asserting that as they are God’s creatures we have duties concerning them. I fail to see the difference between "concerning them" and "towards them." It seems to me that the whole of the remarks quoted point to an indecisive attitude towards the animal kingdom and a suspicion of attempts to "serve God and Mammon." I could wax wrathful indeed on the arbitrary assertions made and do question his authority to make them, but will try to take no more than necessary of your time and patience, Sir. However, I must take exception to the remark concerning false sentimentality as applied to those who love animals. I know that there are many thousands of others, who, like myself, have sufficient love in their hearts to be kind to animals and still be kind also to humans in addition to the quoted duty to one’s
neighbours.
M.
ROPER
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 622, 1 June 1951, Page 5
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222KILLING A HARE New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 622, 1 June 1951, Page 5
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